History Faces

The roots of Faces reach back as far as 1989 when ISABEST, one of Asset | Accounting & Finance forerunning associations, started publishing a more formal booklet for its members: Ra’Drs was born. This name is a contraction of the two titles graduated accountants can earn: ‘doctorandus’ (equivalent of MSc) upon finishing their studies and even ‘Registeraccountant’ (certified accountant) after post-doc education. At first, it was just an informal newsletter. However, soon thereafter ISABEST found out they could do more. They discovered that they were able to attract well-known economists and other influential people to contribute to their magazine. Later on, they thought it could be beneficial to both the students as well as companies to give the opportunity to advertise. The newsletter transformed to a semi-scientific magazine, attractive to not only the association, but also its students and partners.

Ofcourse, in September 1999 ISABEST merged with F.A.T. Mercurius to Financiele Studievereniging Tilburg. With the merger of both associations came the merger of both editorial boards, as Mercurius too had a magazine. Mercurius Financieel started in 1991.

Back to the merger, as with a new association comes a new name. The new and improved magazine needed one too. After thorough deliberation this became Finance, Accounting and Controlling essays, or Faces in short. The fusion of the editorial boards ran alongside the board meetings of ISABEST and F.A.T. Mercurius, so effectively two mergers were wrapped up alongside each other. With a merger come difficult decisions regarding position division, so the first Faces Editor-in-Chief became the former ISABEST Editor-in-Chief and the first Copy Editor became the long-time F.A.T. Mercurius lay-out go-to guy.

The redaction of Faces had interviews with well-know people like Ronald Plasterk, Herman Wijffels, Gerrit Zalm, Nout Wellink, Geert Hofstede, Joost van Roost (ex- CEO ExxonMobil Benelux), Carla Smits-Nusteling (ex-CFO KPN), Jos Nijhuis (ex-CEO PwC), Matthijs Bouman and many more.

Over the last years, Faces has gotten several face lifts.  In 2012/2013 the layout of the physical magazine, still run by the same as 1999, was modernized and last year Asset | Accounting & Finance joined the new trend, namely going online! Therefore, the wonderful new website, www.Faces-Online.nl was created.